it talked about us as a nation that loves the rule of law law, yet we do so outside the rule of law. he gave the platitude that we don't need perpetual war that national security, yet we are in a state of perpetual war. i don't he mentioned the word afghanistan, which is interesting. i think if he wanted to make a hallmark, and he could very well have said, i got this out of iraq and now getting us out of afghanistan, and something concrete to say that we're moving away from perpetual war. in the meantime, looks like we're getting more into the quagmire, not just with the current drone strikes in pakistan and somalia, but mali is very dangerous, and all of northern africa. the fact that he did not mention gun-control is astonishing. this seems where he was honest and a lot of his political capital and called for a grass- roots uprising to counter the power of the nra. yet we have the attention of the entire nation watching to not say, we need people to get behind this effort to really secure our children and our communities by getting assault weapons off our streets or something he c